CAN anyone solve the riddle behind these unearthly blue lights in a spectacular aerial display?

It was filmed by Gordon Carter in Rainford in the early hours of Monday, February 6. He explained: “At just gone 1am I went into my back garden to put a sack of rubbish into the bin when I noticed two strange and baffling lights in the night sky.

"One was square and never moved apart from blinking on and off and the other one was circular and both were bright blue.

“They looked to be several hundred feet high and almost directly above me, but at a slight angle. The circular light was dancing and moving around and at times it looked like it was changing into a tube, though this could have been the speed and movement of the thing.

“After watching the lights for a short time I recorded what I saw on mobile phone. I zoomed in and tried my best to film the lights as best as I could, although this was difficult at times as the circular light was darting around all over the place and it was a bitter night so there is some camera shake.

“After around two minutes the lights were gone and didn’t return as I kept an eye on the sky for a while with my camera ready.

“This was a pretty spectacular event; very exciting and mind boggling and bizarre to say the least. I am sure what I witnessed was no aircraft, plus there was no sound whatsoever. Also on viewing the footage you can see several different coloured smaller lights, which I didn’t see at the time.

I can only report what I saw and filmed and I would be grateful if someone could look at the footage and maybe do some analysis to see what they can discover.”